Kim Yoo-chul reports: SK Communications, operator of the immensely-popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social network website, is challenging a damage compensation awarded to one of its customers who sued the company over its lax protection of private data. She is among many users of Cyworld and Nate (www.nate.com) , another SK Communications service, who have pursued legal…
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China continues to root out traders in stolen personal info
BBC reports that Beijing authorities have arrested 160 on charges of stealing personal information and have shut down 13 sites allegedly involved in trading stolen personal information. This is in addition to the 1,700 arrested last month. Read more on BBC.
CORRECTED: GCI warns some customers about potential misuse of account info
Another insider breach: GCI is sending letters to about 400 customers and urging them to check their accounts for any unusual activity. The letters follow the discovery that a former customer telephone service representative may have misused customer-supplied credit card or bank account payment information. Read more on Anchorage Daily News Correction: In an earlier…
UK: Contract catering firm signs undertaking to improve data protection
Without fanfare, the ICO has published an undertaking signed by Holroyd Howe Independent Ltd in Reading. The gist of the breach is that in response to a request for a copy of an ex-employee’s payslip (requested by the ex-employee), the data processor mailed a document disclosing the relevant month’s payslips for all of the contract catering firm’s…
AU: Hackers hit Telstra site (updated)
Ben Grubb reports: Telstra has been hit by a “hacking attack” affecting 35,000 customers, just a week after one of its IT staff told a security conference the telco was reviewing how it secured and stored customer information. The hacking attack occurred on the servers of a third party company that runs Telstra BigPond’s GameArena and Games Shop websites, the telco…
MilitarySingles.com breach back in the news
It looks like the MilitarySingles.com breach is back in the news. Yes, that would be the hack that they denied happened. The newest round of reports flows from a report by Imperva, dissecting the breach. John E. Dunn of Techworld, ITProPortal, and Anne Saita of ThreatPost cover the report and the risks consumer-created content pose for the…